November 30, 2007

Comic Chris Rock, after insulting Gayle King with his stand-up act, spotted Oprah's BFF storming out. He quipped and it was no joke this time, "I'm sorry! [to King as she exited] If y'all don't see me again, Oprah did it!" Now back on the air, Imus will get those who hadn't supported him during the "ho" crisis. And even with my two syndicated blogs - here's the other - people ask me for favors and fear my displeasure.

We decry the Bush Administration's power. But the media may even have more since with digital technology, there are billions of members of the media.

November 29, 2007

Is Rudy finished? Gotcha THE NEW YORK POST had the former mayor and his now wife on the cover. And on all the websites there are updates on the Cheap or Crook Rudy story. The latest is that when Mayor he had the NYPD drive his mistress around. In the heartland and staid New England it might be the possible crime involved in billing his affair to the city. But here in the Manhattan Metro area what bothers us is how cheap Rudy was in paying for his and his "girlfriend's" dates.

Good writers cast spells. And then that process of writing winds up casting a spell of us. No matter how glutted every category in writing gets, we do whatever it takes - including living a life of few creature comforts - to be able to write and not do much more.

November 28, 2007

I opened Pandora's box on my legal blog. It all started out when some recent underemployed/unemployed law graduates contacted me for job coaching. Knowing they were already carrying about$100,000 debt in student loans, I tried to talk them out of the need for coaching. First, I told them, I would write a few how-tos on my legal blog about how to get a good job, law-related or not, that would put them on a career path and start paying off those loans. Fair enough, they said.

Those 2nd homes have gone from showy status symbol - you must visit our vacation house - to being classified as Very Ungreen. Eco-warriors will be invading these Edens, pointing to the homes many many sins against the gospel of green.

November 27, 2007

Dan Rather's strange career ended prematurely and on a sour note. For all the usual egotistical delusions once-famous men have, Dan thinks he can erase all that through a lawsuit. And so he's suing his former employer CBS. The tale of that suit is told by Joe Hagan in this issue of NEW YORK Magazine.

November 26, 2007

Talk about wallowing in cliches. Tonight's episode of "CSI: Miami" focuses on the very rich - so rich that the family has not one but two nannies. One of the nannies gets offed and so the plot begins. As the hard-working middle-income [except it was pointed out Callie did come from money but since her father is an active alcoholic I guess the show lets her off the hook for that] CSI team hunts for the murderer we get a peek into the extreme dysfunction of the family.

Sunday's dark episode of "Desperate Housewives" brought home to me that this seeming ball of fluff might be a morality tale. In the episode those manipulative, greedy, and self-absorbed housewives - Gabby and Susan - both got backed into a corner.

Drama is in, at least in careers. We're not going much for simple career change. No, we are blowing ourselves up. We want a fresh start, a blank slate, a different everything. I know. Forty-nine months ago I did just that. Out with the old. And then is where I got stuck.